8/3 @ 8:00pm / Jerry Beck's Animation Tuesdays: Turned-On Toons (feat. Down And Dirty Duck)
With its inherent ability to give vibrant life to the inner imaginings of the artist, animation has always been the perfect art form for the doodling of dirty daydreams. With ink and juices flowing, the animator can indulge their salacious inner fantasies frame by frame. Join us as we explore titillating toons from across the ages, from the secret "smutty symphonies" of '20s studio animators to the raunchy X-rated revelries of the '60s and '70s, up through to the naughties of now, climaxing with an ultra-rare 35mm screening of the 1974 feature Down And Dirty Duck! Produced by Roger Corman as a response to Ralph Bakshi's successful Fritz The Cat and featuring the voices and songs of Flo & Eddie (Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan of The Turtles and Mothers of Invention), Duck is a strikingly stylized psychedelic odyssey of sexual frustration, and an off-color oddity that perfectly embodies the raunchy underground élan of the 1970s. Down And Dirty Duck director Charles Swenson will be here for a Q&A after the screening! Down And Dirty Duck Dir. Charles Swenson, 1974, 35mm, 75 min.
Watch an excerpt from "Down And Dirty Duck"!
Tickets - $13/$9 for members
8/6 @ sundown SPECIAL OFFSITE EVENT!: Alamo Drafthouse's Rolling Roadshow - Jackie Brown @ Del Amo Mall! Co-presented by Levi's
Austin TX's legendary Alamo Drafthouse comes to Los Angeles, as part of their touring Rolling Roadshow extravaganza! This year, the Rolling Roadshow's L.A. leg takes place at Torrence's Del Amo Fashion Mall, and features an outdoor screening of Jackie Brown!
A down-on-his-luck bail bondsman (Robert Forester) finds himself wrapped up in a crime plot likely to break his heart and/or end his life. But after falling head-over-heels for gorgeous flight attendant Jackie Brown (Pam Grier), there’s nowhere to go but straight through the wringer. Quentin Tarantino’s late ’90s masterpiece is a mountain of incredible parts: a crime story, a love story, a tribute to the most sincere cinema of the ’70s, and an unbelievable showcase for the talents of some of Hollywood’s very finest.
To properly celebrate Jackie Brown, we’ll be joining the director and stars (schedules permitting) at its original shooting location of The Del Amo Mall in Torrance, CA!
Screening begins at sunset. Please bring your own chair or blanket. Restroom facilities will be available. 18 and up; children 6 and up will be allowed only with a parent or guardian. No children under the age of 6 will be allowed. For directions to Del Amo Fashion Mall, click here. Check out the Rolling Roadshow event page on Facebook!
Watch the trailer for "Jackie Brown"!
Tickets - free admission
8/15 @ 8:00pm Chuck & Buck (10th Anniversary screening, w/ Miguel Arteta & Mike White in person!) Chuck & Buck is an intelligent, multi-layered exploration of romantic obsession, and adolescence not just arrested, but held completely captive; it's also, as David Edelstein puts it, "the most perversely agreeable stalker picture ever made". Writing and playing the role of Buck -- an emotionally fragile, detached 27-year-old man-child who packs his life up in order to reunite with his one close childhood friend, Chuck, in Los Angeles -- is screenwriter Mike White, and he imbues his poor, misguided creation with a mix of innocence, love and offness that makes him impossible to reject, yet hard to embrace. Directed by Miguel Arteta (The Good Girl, Star Maps) and employing lo-fi DV imagery to its righteous fullest, Chuck & Buck is an enthralling human dichotomy that imbues Cassavetes-styled invasiveness and whimsy with several coats of creepiness and a swathe of universal empathy. Miguel Arteta and Mike White will be here in person for a Q&A after the show, as well as several other members of the film's cast!
Dir. Miguel Arteta, 2000, 35mm, 96 min.
Tickets - $12/$8 for members
8/22 @ 8:00pm Doug Benson's Movie Interruption: Torque
Comedian Doug Benson (Super High Me, the "Doug Loves Movies" podcast, "Best Week Ever") is back with another live commentary to a feature film on the Cinefamily screen! Back in May, Doug and his crew ripped it up to Friday The 13th Part 3, along with the help of the film's co-star Larry Zerner -- and this time around, with the help of its co-star Adam Scott (Step Brothers, The Aviator) and fellow funnyman Paul Scheer ("Human Giant"), Doug tears into the 2004 motorcycle gang quasi-classic Torque! Co-starring Ice Cube and Jaime Pressley, this Fast And The Furious-style speed junkie flick's got something to do with avenging someone's murdered brother -- but, really, it's all about the dangerously fast riding and the one-liners, on top of which Doug and his crew will be knocking about with their own fully-stocked comedic arsenal. Adam Scott says "People sometimes make fun of Torque, both for its content and its title. I'm here to say: fuck them, it totally fucking shreds." You be the judge at this one-time-only event!
Watch the trailer for "Torque", to check out what you're in for!
Tickets - $12/$8 for members
8/28 & 8/29 @ 7:30pm / Series: Dumber In The Summer Everything Is Terrible! presents: Everything Is Festival!
Imagine a weekend where all your fantasies come true. A weekend where you can just be...free. Laugh until your sides literally split open, and feel as cool as a skateboarding, shade-tippin' dog. We're talking about the festival to end all film festivals -- Everything Is Festival! (aka the 10th Annual Gathering Of The Terribles)! For reasons beyond our control (God's plan), we at Cinefamily are giving the found footage freaks at Everything Is Terrible! free range of the weekend, and letting them do whatever the hell they want (note: we did have to say “no” to the all-night helicopter foam party). This makes it the official L.A. premiere of their latest mash-up feature-length film, 2Everything 2Terrible 2: Tokyo Drift, not to mention some of EIT!’s favorite movies in their uncut glory, plus dance parties, BBQs, a return of the Cinefamily Found Footage Battle Royal, and top-secret über-rare prints from the vaults of Cinefamily and Austin, TX’s famous Alamo Drafthouse! If that wasn't enough to drench your dick, EIT! will also be playing assorted madness from all their favorite pals they've met on their mystical journey: TV Carnage, Waverly Films, Rob Schrab, Black Magic Roller Coaster and tons more! Overall, we promise it will be the most fun you'll ever have at this dump! Think Sundance, but for discerning slobs like you! Swag-bags for folks who buy weekend passes! The only thing we ask is to bring along your old friend...Imagination!
DAY ONE (August 28th):
- 2Everything 2Terrible 2: Tokyo Drift (official L.A. premiere!)
- freakazoid feature films TBA!
DAY TWO (August 29th):
- Found Footage Battle Royal
- epic big-ass shindig to follow!
NOTE: Each of the two days of Everything Is Festival! are separate admissions, unless you are an EIF! “weekend passholder”. Sales for weekend passes end August 27, 12:01AM, and will not be available at the box office.
Tickets - $12/$8 for members, weekend pass $16/$12 for members
August 28, 7:30pm
August 29, 7:30pm
Everything Is Festival! weekend pass
8/31 @ 8:00pm / Series: L.A. Burnouts Ciao Manhattan (co-director David Weisman and cast members in person!) Co-presented by American Apparel
Bob Dylan and Lou Reed wrote songs about her, girls everywhere wanted to dress like her, and Andy Warhol dubbed her a "Superstar", making film after film with her at the center. Edie Sedgwick was the "it" girl of the Factory, the tragic beauty of the '60s -- and there is no more perfect entry into Edie's world (and by association, Warhol's Factory) than David Weisman and John Palmer's experimental fiction/documentary fusion Ciao Manhattan. In this unusual take on the biographical film, Edie plays a thinly-veiled version of herself, Suzie Superstar, whose mod Manhattan exploits are recounted from her mother's Malibu swimming pool, where Suzie now lives in a makeshift tent, strung out on pills and waited on by horny beach bums. The NYC flashbacks are made up of gorgeous 1967 footage Weisman and Palmer shot for an unfinished film, paired with audio of candid true memories Edie recorded years later in a more dissipated state. Co-director David Weisman will be in person, along with co-stars Wesley Hayes and Jeff Briggs to share their memories -- and this special screening will be accompanied by the monstrously cool, very rare 30-minute documentary Edie: Girl On Fire, made up of outtakes, rare audio recordings, photographs, and more!
Watch the trailer for "Ciao Manhattan"!
Tickets - $12/$8 members
9/6 @ 6:00pm The 5 Minutes Game: Labor Day Edition!
We here at the Cinefamily love two things in tandem: busting out the patio grill, and an onslaught of deranged video -- so we're closing out a whole summer's worth of nonstop partying with another installment of our highly popular and always-unpredictable 5 Minutes Game! What's all this about a game, you ask? We're firm believers in "Every movie is interesting for at least its first five minutes": those fascinating moments when you're still entering the new world a film presents you, and trying to figure out what the hell's going on. What we're gonna do is choose fifteen movies you've likely never seen before (with most, if not all of the films unavailable on DVD), line 'em up, and only show you the first five minutes of each. After all that, you, the audience, gets to vote on which film out of the fifteen we all then watch in its entirety. So bring something to cook on our grill, and let's get started!
It triggered Australia’s exploitation explosion, and remains one of the most infamous biker movies in genre history! Never before screened in Los Angeles, Stone is the full-throttle saga of an undercover cop (Ken Shorter) who infiltrates the outlaw Grave Diggers (led by producer/director/co-writer Sandy Harbutt), a vicious clan with vengeance in their hearts, violence on their minds, and 150 horsepower of screaming steel between their legs as they thrash down the highway on a one-way trip to hell. This fantastically whacked-out biker parade, featuring a host of recognizable faces from Mad Max, Picnic At Hanging Rock and The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert co-starring with members of the Sydney chapter of the Hell’s Angels, is highlighted by a host of top-notch psychedelic touches: slo-mo bike accidents, hallucinogenic trips, death-defying freefall cliff stunts -- and a soundtrack full of lysergic swamp-funk rhythm section work, electronic percussion, didgeridoo and treated keyboards all intermingling to create an insane orgy for the ears, one equal to the killer brawls and falls in this ultimate Down Under classic! Our screening of Stone comes from a brand-new 35mm print, courtesy of director Sandy Harbutt! Plus, we’ve got a special guest DJ set from Finders Keepers label founder Andy Votel (aka Cock Diesel), and a biker rock afterparty with motorized footage curated by Cinefamily’s own Tom Fitzgerald!
Dir. Sandy Harbutt, 1974, 35mm, 103 min.
Watch the trailer for "Stone"!
Tickets - $12/$8 for members
9/28 @ 8:00pm "Take 100: The Future Of Film" Book Launch Party (feat. panel discussion w/ the Duplass Brothers!) Co-presented by Book Soup
Book Soup and Cinefamily present the L.A. launch of the brand-new book “Take 100: The Future Of Film”, the first global film festival ever attempted between two covers, along with a live panel discussion featuring film directors The Duplass Brothers (Cyrus, Baghead, The Puffy Chair) and Taika Waititi (Eagle vs. Shark)! Published by Phaidon, “Take 100” is a 450-page, richly-illustrated tome that features the work of 100 of the world’s most promising new film directors, as selected by ten esteemed film-festival director “curators”. Whether you’re a film professional or a casual moviegoer, “Take 100” will guide you through today's must-see films and directors. The evening’s panel is moderated by esteemed curator Trevor Groth (Director of Programming for the Sundance Film Festival) -- and join us after the show for a book signing on our backyard Spanish patio!
Tickets - $12/$8 for members
11/2 @ 8:00pm Stranded In Canton (a film by William Eggleston)
Jerry Beck's Animation Tuesdays:
SPECIAL OFFSITE EVENT!:
Chuck & Buck
Doug Benson's Movie Interruption:
Everything Is Terrible! presents:
Ciao Manhattan
The 5 Minutes Game:
Stone
"Take 100: The Future Of Film" Book Launch Party
